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Crunch—
The pristine snow blanketing the ice left clean footprints behind.
The chill felt against the skin was not so different from the real thing.
Skritch—!
As they walked downstream, a monster lurking along the path approached.
[Ice Spider (Lv.33)]
A spider radiating a translucent blue light from its entire body.
The target carrying the frostbitten venomous fang.
Its red eyes were fixed in a glare at Hanbit.
Its sharp legs were more than sufficient to tear an enemy apart.
Hanbit extended his hand and spoke the incantation.
“Fire Burst.”
Boom—!
The fireball struck the moment it was launched, triggering a massive explosion.
When the flames scattered, the spider was nowhere to be seen.
Ding—
[You have gained 300 experience points.]
-Look at how stingy the exp is;
-Field mobs are always like that.
-But why is the firepower of a rank 2 skill like this?
-Is it a bug?
-Here come the bug parrots.
-New viewers are cute.
Viewers who had just tuned in reacted with amazement.
The regulars were being territorial about it, but they didn’t know the truth either.
This power was one of the results of past experience manifesting as a title.
“Hmm, nothing dropped as expected.”
Nothing had fallen where the monster vanished.
Even basic materials were not things that could simply be obtained with ease.
Shing—!
Hanbit, glancing around, drew his sword.
And immediately activated Elemental Manifestation.
Whoosh—!
Preheating that began alongside intense heat.
As he watched it, a question came to mind.
He immediately opened the title list.
[Chronicler of 55 Runs]
The experience the chronicler has accumulated is unlocked.
1. The proficiency of all experienced skills builds at an extremely accelerated rate. Performance is enhanced in proportion to the degree of experience.
2. All elemental affinities are activated, and the effects of elemental power increase dramatically.
3. You are freed from the equip and use conditions of all items you have experience using.
(However, performance degradation due to stat differences is maintained, and that value is minimized.)
4. Locked (Keyword: NPC)
‘Proficiency does build up.’
The title’s effects were limited to experience in the end.
However, the hidden skill ‘Elemental Manifestation’ recently obtained was a power Hanbit himself was using for the first time.
On top of that, being an elemental skill, it was the kind to which both clauses 1 and 2 applied.
Whoosh—!
Even though it was a technique he couldn’t use frequently, change could already be felt.
Not only the rise in stats — if proficiency were to be fully stacked, it would surely show considerable power.
‘Sylph can barely materialize anymore.’
Since obtaining Elemental Manifestation, the spirit’s wind had naturally fallen into a supporting role.
He missed the cheerful chirping of a bird, but this was an unstable period.
He could only feel genuinely grateful to Sylph.
“We’ll keep going.”
Hanbit moved forward again, heading downstream.
The monsters encountered along the way were quickly dealt with by Avantgarde, who pressed ahead to clear them.
After advancing for roughly ten minutes,
the two arrived before a deeply sunken ice floor.
“So this is where you were heading. I’ve passed through here a few times myself.”
Avantgarde, who had traveled to every corner of the world, had visited this place before as well.
However, other than admiring the scenery, there was nothing particularly special here.
Hanbit, examining the ice floor, drew his sword and spoke.
“In this world, there are things called nests.”
“Nests… do you mean the lairs of flying monsters?”
“No, it’s not limited to any particular type of monster. They are places where monsters are born and grow abnormally.”
“What? Such a place…….”
Whoosh—!
Just then, wind mingled with the flames rising from Hanbit’s pale blue-white sword.
He spoke as he slowly slid toward the ice floor.
“Come down first.”
“Understood!”
Avantgarde, grasping the situation in an instant, followed him down.
The two advanced a little further and stood at the center of the ice floor.
“We’re going to drop through.”
“Pardon?”
Crack—!
In an instant, Hanbit’s pale blue-white sword plunged down into the ice floor.
Simultaneously, the flames that had finished preheating spread out powerfully.
Whoosh—!
The immense heat melted through the thick layer of ice in a single moment.
And then.
Whomp—!
The two who had been standing on top plummeted downward.
“Whooaaa!”
Caught off guard, Avantgarde let out a delighted cry.
Meanwhile, Hanbit focused on the sight unfolding at the end of what lay beneath his feet.
Hush—
A vast underground space suffused with a faint violet light.
It was packed densely with tiny white specks.
“Could it be… are they all Ice Spiders?!”
Avantgarde, in the midst of his gleeful plunge, recognized what the specks were.
By rough count, hundreds — no, more than a thousand.
-Holy—
-Absolutely disgusting;
-A place like this existed?
-Who’s going to smash the floor of a glacier.
-What are those white thread clumps over there?
-Are those cocoons?
The chat shot upward rapidly at the horrifying sight.
The white thread clumps that caught the eyes of several viewers — as someone had said, those were cocoons.
Inside each one, a sleeping spider was alive and breathing.
‘Even more than last time.’
The total number of spiders, cocoons included, was approximately two thousand.
More than enough to obtain the special materials he was after.
“Where are we landing?!”
The two were still falling through the air.
Avantgarde was scanning for a landing spot.
But there was no need for that.
“I’m starting.”
“Pardon?”
Whoosh—!
Hanbit gripped his sword in both hands and steadied his stance.
‘Focus only on firepower.’
Precision is meaningless here.
What is needed now is pure firepower.
Nothing but the strength to deal with a vast number of enemies.
Whoosh—!
Flames pushed nearly to their limit, combined with a raging gale, unleashed a fierce torrent of scorching wind.
The optimal position to strike the spiders and cocoons spread across the floor below.
That was the target.
Whoosh—!
As Hanbit fell, he focused on the closing distance between himself and the ground.
And the moment he passed the position he had decided on—
Shhk—!
He swung his sword with every ounce of strength.
Fwoom—!
A firestorm erupted and launched forward, blotting out his field of vision.
The attack that descended in an instant blanketed the entire ground at once.
Boom boom boom—!
“Ugh!”
The heat that surged back from the recoil threw Avantgarde’s stance into disarray.
Meanwhile, Hanbit, having been pushed aside, instead kicked off the wall and plunged downward.
“Fire Burst!”
Boom—!
The areas not consumed by the firestorm were already mapped in his eyes.
Extending his hand toward each position, Hanbit continued unleashing magic.
Bang—!
Boom—!
The nest had become a complete chaos to the point where even what was ahead was barely visible.
“Fire Burst!”
Boom—!
Having spoken the final incantation, Hanbit finally ceased his magic.
And the message announcing the results reached him.
[Your experience points have increased by 650,400.]
[Your level has risen by 7.]
[7 stat points are awarded.]
-What the—
-650 thousand?
-How many did he kill?
-About 2,100?
-This is a nest?
[FieldDemon has donated 10,000 won.]
[Starting today, I’m camping in front of a nest.]
[FlameCharisma has donated 50,000 won.]
[Wow, that’s insane;]
The viewers’ eyes lit up at the staggering experience point number.
Their feelings were understandable, but it was a futile hope.
Thud—!
Hanbit landed on the ground and surveyed the devastated nest.
Then he delivered an unfortunate truth.
“A nest that’s already been destroyed can’t be used again. Finding a new one would be the more viable option.”
-Where do you even find one;
-There are more, at least?
-Buying nest coordinates.
-Sale complete.
-?
As the chat grew noisy again,
Avantgarde also landed beside him.
“That was truly a spectacular sight. To witness that many monsters being swept up in person…….”
His voice was filled with heat.
The experience distribution was one hundred to zero, so he must have received nothing — yet his eyes shone with pure light.
Hanbit turned his gaze to the surroundings where the monsters had vanished.
‘There it is.’
The common material dropped by Ice Spiders was a single leg.
And among them, a faint dark blue glow caught his eye.
That was the characteristic of a frostbitten spider’s venomous fang.
Thud—!
Hanbit leaped onto the broken ground and landed right at that spot in a single bound.
Pushing through the spider legs, he crouched down.
[Frostbitten Spider’s Venomous Fang]
Rank: 2
Grade: Heroic
Description: A venomous fang possessed only by a very small fraction of Ice Spiders. Mishandling it can cause frostbite and paralysis, so care must be taken.
The description of the dark blue venomous fang matched Hanbit’s knowledge exactly.
He placed it in his inventory and rose to his feet.
“I should collect the legs too.”
Hundreds of legs left behind by over two thousand Ice Spiders.
It would be good to gather them up, of course, but picking through them all was no easy task.
“Ah, I’ll collect those in your stead.”
Just then, Avantgarde, who had followed after him, produced a small pouch from his inventory.
Seeing it, Hanbit asked with a look of mild surprise.
“Is that by any chance a Sandstorm Pouch?”
“You know it, as expected. It’s something I obtained from a quest while traveling through the central region. Quite useful for farming.”
The magical tool, Sandstorm Pouch.
It had the function of drawing in items identical to whatever was placed inside it.
For large-scale hunts like this, it was practically indispensable.
-He has one of those;
-A travel streamer through and through.
-Are there even a hundred on the server?
-The vanguards at the top probably grabbed one early on.
Shhk—!
Avantgarde immediately placed a spider leg into the pouch.
At the same moment, a wind began to stir, sucking inward toward the pouch.
Whoooosh—!
Every leg within the nest was swept into the pouch in one fell swoop.
The entire operation took less than a minute.
Thanks to being in a party together, item ownership was naturally shared.
“Thank you. That wrapped up comfortably.”
“I’ll give it to you as a gift.”
Avantgarde held the pouch out without a second of hesitation.
But Hanbit shook his head.
“That’s alright. I’ll come across something similar later. Just lending it to me until then is more than enough.”
“So there’s something similar to this as well. Understood. Assisting you from close by is its own pleasure for me.”
With that exchange concluded, the two made their way out of the nest.
Thanks to a hidden passage on the outer edge, it was no trouble at all.
“I didn’t expect to obtain one so quickly. Do you have something in mind for the remaining one as well?”
Avantgarde, observing the path they had come through with interest, asked.
What remained was the snow-flower deer’s tough hide.
Unlike the venomous fang, this required finding and hunting a specific individual.
“I do have something in mind, but it’ll take a bit of time. It’s not easy even for me to find it right away.”
“I’ll do my best to cover as much ground as possible too. In that case——”
“Hold on.”
Just then, a voice came suddenly from above the ravine.
A man wearing a hood was looking down at them from up there.
“You are…….”
The moment he confirmed the face, a memory surfaced.
It was Liwei, the vanguard scout he had seen in the cave of the restricted area.
